Submitted by jgo, Nov 12, 2006 18:16

Sure, renew the R&D extortion credit. But also increase the credits for the costs of interviewing, relocating, and educating or training US citizens to keep up with inflation so as to discourage body shopping and thus encourage more US citizens to study long and hard for fields which have recently been under-mined by body shopping, including guest-worker abuse, and off-shoring. Reduce total current guest-worker limits from all programs to be in the neighborhood of 4,000 per year to adhere to the executives' claims that they would bring in only "the best and brightest", contrary to their actual practice of bringing in massive numbers of the barely-competent and easily brow-beaten... and then under-paying them. If we want the USA to be competitive, we have to cultivate lots of bright, creative US citizens whose loyalties are to the future success of the USA, and reward them appropriately rather than funnelling the value they create into the pockets of a few corrupt academic and government and company executives.

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